Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-01-20
Our Judges.
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Below we give a short sketch Of the
gentlemen who will sit on the bench In
this, the Fifteenth Judicial district, com.
posed OF the counties OF Audubon, Cass,
Fremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pot.
tawattamie and Shelby, for the next four
years, except Judge Loofbourow, whose
term expires IN two years
GEORGE CARSON
was born February 9, 1s4i, near Scipio,
Ind. Enlisted in Co. X, 18th Indiana IN.
iantry October 8, 1861; discharged cor.
poral May 20, 1862; re.enisted Aug. Z,
1862, in Co. |, 6sth Indiana infantry, and
served as orderly sergeant, second and first
lieutenant. Was severely wounded at the
storlning Of Missionary Ridge, Nov. %,
1868; discharged July 3, 1865 graduated
with the law class OF the University OF
Michigan in 1868. lie has resided at
Council Bluffs since Feb, "a, 1869. Mar.
ried Rachael l.. Boy e at Ypsilanil, Mich,
Oct. 8, 1871. He was elected to the Iowa
house OF representatives in 1877 ard 1879,
and to the Iowa senate in 1883. Judge
Carson was the proposer OF the present
convention, II being offered as an amend.
mcnt by him when the new law was on
It's passage. lie was raised Protestant.
CT LooFBouRow
was born in Knox county, Ohio, and is
now Al wears old. lie removed from Ohio
to Marshall county, Iowa, in 1896, where
he was admitted to the bar in 1868, and in
the same year he located in Cas- county.
lie was married in 1870, at Mlarshalltown,
TO MISS II. 5. IIodgkius, who came to
Iowa from Massachusetts at about the
ha. (lhia Ia rs
elected to the Circuit bench in the Thir.
teenth district in 1876, and held that posi-.
ton until Judge Reed went from the dis.
trict bench OF the district to the supreme
bench, Jan. ], 1854, when he was appointed
to serve out his unexpired term, and was
elected district Judge in 1884, and has two
years Of that term still to serve. His only
official service OF any importance has been
upon the bench, as above stated. He
servec In the war of the rebellion in an
Ohio infantry regiment. lie was raised a
Methodist, but has never established mem
bership in any chuch.
A. u. THoRNELL,
OF Sidney, Fremont county, is about 80
years old, and is native Of New York
lie graduated at Tabor college, and after
that acquired his legal training at the iowa
State University, after which he went into
practice at Council Bluffs with ex-Chan-
cellor Ross. He then settled at Sidney,
and was elected district attorney tour years
ago. He married Miss Ella Gray and has
a family of young children, He has abun.
dant tact, as shown last fall when il was
sought to make him the putative father of
a sensational interview regarding Eighth
district politics. His denial was prompt
and indignant.
n. o. DEEMER
was born Nov. "a, 1883 in Marshall county,
Ind. Game to Iowa when lad, entered
the preparatory department OF the Iowa
State University and remained in the reg.
ular course till the end Of the sophomore
year. He then entered the law depart
ment and graduated in 1878 Has been a
practicing attorney at Red Oak ever since.
He was Inspector general in First Brigade
N G., on the staff Gen. ii II. Wright.
las been married five years.